General Instruments category: 2949 books

The Pianist’s Craft 2, pianist and scholar Richard P. Anderson gathers together a new collection of essays by renowned performing artists and teachers and discusses the preparation, pedagogy, and performance of selected works by an entirely different set of composers whose works are standard in...

17 original compositions written and performed by the modern fingerstyle guitar master.

Playing scales on one string is the quickest way to develop your melody playing and expression on the guitar. You will also learn to change positions on the guitar confidently and musically. Who are you learning from? Peter Inglis has a 40 career spanning the dance hall, to the recording studio...

I came across the 2 Position Guitar Scale System several years ago when I was fooling around in an altered tuning – fourths tuning to be precise – and wondered if I could apply the same logic to standard tuning to teach scales and arpeggios using only two patterns per scale instead of the usual...

What will we learn in this book? How to play barre chords easily and without strain. Who is the book for? This book will help three main categories of guitarist: Beginners. 2.Frustrated guitarists who want to get the guitar out of the closet and have another crack at it. 3.People who wish...

Music is a mysterious place. It is close to being mathematically perfect, but not quite.Although the original western scales devised by the Greeks were simply multiples of certain lengths of vibrating string, many factors have conspired to make contemporary western scales a little more complicated....

★ Private memory techniques help to achieve memorize scales and musical note positions on the guitar in 10 minutes ★ Combine musical intervals, chords, arpeggios, key modes and practice mantras to let you play more freely on a fretboard ★ Practical examples and licks enhance your...

A short composition that introduces students to "modern" elements of playing and show, how they tell a story.. The interpretation is attached

The premise of Kitharologus is that "Guitar technique is made up of a limited number of procedures with an unlimited number of applications. Therefore, a sound technical methodology is not one that tries to cover all possible forms of a given procedure, but rather one that identifies and trains...

The Guitar Lessons of Julio Sagreras are among the most universally used collections of guitar music and represent a milestone in guitar didactic literature.  The original six lesson books, along with the book Advanced Technique, were an immediate success on their introduction and remain so...

*Guitar Springboard is an innovative series of tuition guides, allowing you to boost your playing skills and knowledge by concentrating upon key musical areas. In this edition, discover an entire compendium of technical ideas. By learning good technique you will not only become a better player...

This expanded edition of the acclaimed Modern Guitar Method Grade 3 contains outstanding solos, etudes, chord melody studies, scale studies and duets in the keys of A, F#m, G, D, Em, Bm, F, Dm, Bb, Gm, Eb, Cm, Ab and Fm! In addition, 2nd and 3rd positions are thoroughly explored. Every concept in...

Lots of guitarists, myself included, learned some open chords, bar chords and scales and then they settled into a slightly baffled state where they couldn’t progress to the next level. They have chord sequences and riffs they like to play but they don’t really understand why they sound good or...

Learning to play Bass Guitar is a great experience, but getting started can be a challenge! Here at last is a book that helps you familiarise yourself with the instrument and then gets you playing - fast! Full-colour pictures, clear diagrams and really practical advice combine to make Start-Up:...